Kissing Other People or the House of Fame For the Ride

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame For the RideKay Gabriel where when youre back well be having rice and pulses hold in gasses kiss and flip off the one or two remaining pigs A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream blocks,

vol zwierige lijnen en verfspatten

wanhopige vitaliteit

Kees Stip (1913–2001) studeerde klassieke letteren en debuteerde als onderduiker in 1943 met ‘Dieuwertje Diekema’

and the psychoanalysis of grass

embodiment

For several years in the late 1960s

Mijn verwachtingen van de arbeidsmarkt waren altijd naïef

and is also the story of a marriage

Er zwermt iets van de tijdgeest door deze rijke en aantrekkelijke bundel

In Blood Snow

indifferent to its present

destabilizing linguistic coloniality